Oh, I have seen you before... the resident Chess.com apologist. Because, apparently, Chess.com can do no wrong. Are you the founder of Chess.com by any chance? Because any criticism of this site seems to elicit some snide dismissal from you regardless whether the complaint has merit or not.
Unblocking members - half of unblocked members result in 'Invalid id.' message?
It's because trolls are opening and closing accounts almost daily. They have their main account in which they act mostly respectful, then they have their "I wanna be a jerk" account to just antagonize people with it. I've dealt with jerks like this. Many of the idiots i've blocked, their accounts are soon later closed, but then they create a new A-hole account. The only way to make it better is by C.com banning the internet hub/computer ID from the source in which they logged-on from. Not a perfect solution, but would help tremendously.
It's because trolls are opening and closing accounts almost daily. They have their main account in which they act mostly respectful, then they have their "I wanna be a jerk" account to just antagonize people with it
Huh.
I just act like a jerk with my ONLY account.
MAC-bans are an option. They would need to buy a new computer (or at least, a new Ethernet card) to get around that.
Chess playing is a very important hobby to pass rhe time. I am an honest player, but because I play a lot
sometimes it goes wrong. I thought it was a technical programm choice to partly block someone.
My actions are sportif and it,s sometimes annoying to see a penalty message. Can you really do something about it? Please do bye enpassentforlife
I block players regularly, everytime I play Live Chess. The reason I do so is if the player's win/loss ratio seems 'suspicious' or the player has bad chess etiquette, like playing on when their position is hopelessly lost, or letting time run out in order to somehow punish the winner.
Anyway, I go through my extensive Block User List regularly, I unblock many users all at the same time so I can put new block worthy players on the list being that there is a limit to how many people you can block. I've noticed about 1/3rd of the players I unblock I receive an "Invalid id" message after unblocking them.
The only thing I can think of is... these players have since erased their Chess.com accounts? and therefor are no longer "valid" player IDs. Is this assumption correct, and if so, what does this imply, are many of the users on this site really discontinuing their membership on Chess.com with such regularity, or is it more likely they are just creating new user accounts after erasing older accounts?
If that is the case, that just means these bad players are just making new accounts thus avoiding any real penalty for their unsportsmanlike conduct. Anyone that has played the whack-a-mole game knows how this ends - it doesn't. Because there is no disencentive for bad behavior, they just continue on while the productive members of the site are saddled with the never-ending responsibility of weeding out the trash from the good players. Except in this case, bad players just reappear under new user names, so blocking them is futile. That then begs the question, why have a block feature at all?